Dame Steve Shirley and the Kindertransport

Dame Stephanie Shirley, who likes to be known as Steve, has had a remarkable career as a software pioneer, a businesswoman and a philanthropist with a particular interest in autism. Here she talks about her experiences as a child on the Kindertransport from Germany to England in 1939.

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